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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 21:32:24 +0100
From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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To: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject: printcap for serial printer
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Has anyone set up a serial printer to FreeBSD? I'm experimenting
but still have no success. I want to connect a 
Dec LN03R Scriptprinter to /dev/ttyd2 and this is what I have
so far:

#       @(#)printcap    5.3 (Berkeley) 6/30/90
lp0|lp|local laser printer:\
        :lp=/dev/ttyd2:\
        :fs#0x600:br#38400:\
        :mx#0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:

I thought I'd set the ixon/ixoff flags. Don't know if this
is correct though. 

It looks like the queue hangs and is waiting for the line being 
opened. lpq doesn't show the printer status, only 
escunix# lpq
                     <<<----- here normally appears the status.
Rank   Owner      Job  Files                                 Total Size
1st    root       1    /etc/passwd                           851 bytes

Any ideas?

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de